Sunday Talks, 7/8/12

By RL Gardner, on July 8th, 2012

This fall’s elections and this summer’s legislative priorities lead the Sunday television talk shows, as Congress prepares to return from a week-long Fourth of July recess and President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney exchange blows over the nation’s stubbornly slow economic recovery.

CNN’s “State of the Union” has Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, now a senior adviser to the Obama reelection campaign.

CBS’s “Face the Nation” has Arizona Sen. John McCain, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee who joins the program from Monaco, where he’s on an overseas congressional trip, as well as Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a Republican.

NBC’s “Meet the Press” is preempted this Sunday by sports coverage of the Tour de France bicycle race.